Michelle Rhee will have an “overall 30,000-feet advisory role” over the 17 other members of the Republican Florida governor’s Education Transition team, who will do more day-to-day work, a spokesman said.
The former D.C. schools chancellor has no immediate plans to come to Florida for her “strictly advisory role,” which is unpaid, and “could go either way” in terms of joining Governor-elect Rick Scott’s staff, Scott spokesman Trey Stapleton said Friday.
According to Stapleton, Head of Transition Enu Mainigi reached out to Rhee about joining the transition team, and Rhee “decided just a few days ago” to align with the governor.
“I think she’s going to have a more overall 30,000 feet kind of advisory role, but other people on the team will be on fact-finding missions, taking a top-to-bottom approach,” Stapleton said.
In a statement Thursday, Scott called his Education Transition Team “Champions for Achievement” and highlighted Rhee’s name in his opening paragraphs as a “nationally recognized education reformer.”
